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H2Go Infographic – Sept 2016

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I’ve very excited about this graphic we’re releasing today at Crestview Bible Church.  This graphic captures so much of the heartbeat of what our church is about and this just highlights the international/cross-cultural reach of our partnerships.  I hope this encourages you and helps fan the flame of God’s glory going worldwide.  By the way, for every dollar given to Crestview’s general budget, roughly 17% goes to international, cross-cultural partnerships and endeavors.  On top of that, our people have given $9054 for projects around the world.  Praising God that such things could happen through our people.  I hope you’re encouraged, too.

 

Gospel Friday – Gospel Propulsion

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As you think about the amazing good news that God loves sinners and has made a way for them to be right with Him through the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, remember that this message is meant for all people.  Praise God for the Gospel and ask Him to use you for the nations.

Dreaming and my thoughts went here…

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So, I was dreaming about our H2Go Team‘s vision, asking the Lord how He might lead us in global missions and this song was brought to my memory:


Lyrics from Hymnary.org

1 How sweet and awesome is the place
with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays
the choicest of her stores.
2 While all our hearts and all our songs
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
“Lord, why was I a guest?
3 “Why was I made to hear your voice,
and enter while there’s room,
when thousands make a wretched choice,
and rather starve than come?”
4 ‘Twas the same love that spread the feast
that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste,
and perished in our sin.
5 Pity the nations, O our God,
constrain the earth to come;
send your victorious Word abroad,
and bring the strangers home.
6 We long to see your churches full,
that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul,
sing your redeeming grace.

CBC H2Go – Christ: The Joy of Missions

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I’m posting today over at our church’s missions blog:

Habbakuk 3:17-19 “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.”
Strategic Recklessness is really about JOY.  “We forsake our security and comforts in this life to fulfill the Great Commission and to seek our everlasting joy in Christ.”  Christ does give us a superior joy.  Somehow the prophet knew this reality to be true.  Even though everything seemed to be taken away, He still had God and that was the place of joy.  Missions might mean you are inconvenienced, persecuted or even put to death, but having that everlasting joy in Christ means that it will never end.  It’s yours today in Him.  Christ is the joy of missions.  Let Him inspire you to give up all for sake of His cause.

CBC H2Go: The Lamb Takes Away Sin

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I’m posting today over at our church’s missions blog…

John 1:29 – “John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”  

God’s wrath toward sinners is real.  We know that to be true because of what John said about Jesus here.  And, John didn’t just say it.  He proclaimed it.  Look!  See!  Behold! Jesus takes away sin.  That’s what the heart of God’s compassion is about.  “People are under God’s righteous wrath, so with a sense of urgency, we meet their spiritual and physical needs.”  Because we believe that without Christ, sinners will meet a just punishment, we must go and make known the best of all news: Jesus takes away the sin of the world.  
I hope your heart is refreshed in this amazing news today.  Jesus takes away the sin of the world!

Will You Pray for Our Team?

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A team from our church is starting a week long ministry among the Navajo peoples at Immanuel Mission in NE Arizona this week.  The part of Arizona their in is called Sweetwater.  Our missions vision is fraught with water imagery.  We know God is at work in the midst of this.  We developed this guide to pray for them and distributed it this morning.  Will you join me in taking time to pray for our time.

Our Missions Committee’s Blog: CBCH2GO
Twitter: CBCH2GO
Facebook: CBCH2GO

Love and Strategic Recklessness

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Here’s a post I wrote that appeared on our church’s mission blog (the CBC H2Go blog) today:

One of our mission team’s core values is that we’d be strategically reckless:  forsaking our security/comforts in this life for the everlasting joy that’s found in Christ.  It seems we’re giving up so much, but then, again, when we consider what we’re gaining (Christ) it’s really nothing.  I was thinking about how this relates to love.  Love is risky.  Love is saying “no” to ourselves and laying our lives down in service to others.  For this reason, Paul commanded the Romans to “owe no one anything except to love each other, for the one who loves one another has fulfilled the law” (Romans 13:8).  In other words, when we love, we are so in tune with God’s heart that it can be said of us that we are obeying all that God intends for us.  

Love.  It seems so easy, yet is a very costly thing.  Today, how might love inspire your strategic recklessness?  How does Christ’s love compel us to be loving in our actions?  Let’s step out as a strategically reckless people in love. 

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I would add that today the Christian church celebrates Love.  Maundy Thursday is about that new commandment that Jesus gave that we love one another.  This really connects well with this theme I wrote about for the Missions blog.  Hope you’re inspired by the love of Christ, which is controlling you, to be the loving people you’re called to be.